Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review.
If I had to rank all of Chuck Tingle’s novels, the order would be for me, from best to least best*: Bury Your Gays, Lucky Day, Camp Damascus, then Fabulous Bodies. (I have not read his novella Straight as of yet.) And all of those books are 4, 4.5, or 5 stars. So he’s really just killing it. I’m only giving this one four stars because I know he can go deeper, and I’ve loved his protagonists more. This is just a campy fun time, with some gore sprinkled throughout**.
*this is obviously incredibly subjective
**the word “degloving” will never not be traumatic; also beware bc there is some Ramsay Bolton shit in here
The fun premise, in which a body thief picks up the dead body of a famous rockstar, only for him to be undead and malevolent (I don’t know why going in I assumed they would be friends?? Probably bc i’ve seen Lisa Frankenstein too many times. Also, I did think this was his most on the nose, least weird book (though maybe I am just immune now??). I predicted all the twists. I will say it would make an incredibly movie if they get the casting right.
I still had a lot of fun, though, and I will keep reading his books as long as he wants to keep on publishing them.
